Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1891 — THE ELECTIONS [ARTICLE]

THE ELECTIONS

In Ohio, tilt* only state in which the fight has been upon strictly nationalissiies.fhnßppTihli'nuufr have won a grand victory, and i s Wm. McKinley, ‘ the foremost .apostle of the doctrine of ProtectioLh is elected governor by 20,000 majority. The state legislature is also Republican. In NeV York the Democrats have again .carried the day. In lowa the vote again very close, and the result in doubt. lu Chicago and Cook county the Republicans have won a splendid victory. The entire result, even if the Democrats have everything they now claim, is still very encouraging to Republicans, and proves the party is still in splendid fighting trim, and rapidly recovering all that it lost in 1890. The size of the machinery building at the Chicago World’s fair gives an idea of the comparative magnitude of that stupendous enterprise. The building will cover 30 acres of ground and be, by far, the largest structure ever erected by human hands.

The imbroglio with Chili may yet require the arbitrament of cannon-balls for its adjustment Briefly stated the facts are these: On October 15th a liundredor more unarmed sailors from the U. 8. war-ship Baltimore went ashore in the city of Valparaiso, and seemingly without provocation were insulted and then mobbed. One was killed on the spot and another has since died of his injuries, while many were more or less wounded. A large number were also arrested and thrown into prison and only released after they had signed a paper, written in Spanish and to the purport of which the'y were deceived, exonerating the police of the city from any blame in the matter; whereas by all accounts many of the police were among the foremost in the murderous assault The United States government has sent -an entirely courteous request to 'the Chilian government for an explanation, and has received an illtempered and defiant reply. Under such circumstances it ip evident that the generous forbearance due from such a great and powerful nation as our own to a small and weak one, like Chili, is likely to soon cease to be a virtue.

The American Tin-plate company, of Elwood, this state, la** Saturday broke ground for their large brick and iron building and let the contract for its construction. Also contracted for the Various kinds of machinery needed in the works. For the engines to drive the mills and cold rolls with Wm. Tod Co., of Youngstown, Ohio; for the mills and cold rolls,

with Robinson Rea, of Pittsburg, for the tinnery set with Loyd, Booth & Co., of Youngstown. These contracts are to be completed by Feb. Ist at the latest, and it is expected that the mills will be in full running order by March Ist There are already a large number of concerns in this country making tin plate, and the Boston Herald of a few days, ago printed the names of twenty such, together with the certificates of tinners and others to the excellence of the product, and also the statement of a Boston dealer in machinery who has taken the contracts for furnishing tin-plate works with engines, to the amount of between §15,000 and §20,000. Die Her t ald also prints the following and vouches for the writer as an iron merchant of established reputation:

The Herald of Oct. 16 contains a speech by a “Mrs. Gougar,” of Indiana, in which she states that she made an extended visit to a tin-plate mill in Piqua, 0., and there learned many singular things; among others that the said mill was making no plate, and had nothing to make it with save ““what had cost not more than §25 outside of an old-fashioned soap kettle.” Her conclusion was that the McKinley bill, in relation to the tin-plate industry, and the assertion that tin-plates can be and are manufactured here under the provisions of that bill are the "most out ragous fake and fraud ever perpetrated on a reading public.”— _ : In view “of which I have the honor to say that I will furnish to Mrs. Gougar, or to any one, for cash Or approved paper, the very best of tin-plate, either bright tin or terne, in any sizes desired, from 14x20 to 30x96, equal to the best English quality, at the rate of two thousand boxes a week, shipments to begin as soon as the purchaser may wish. The said tin-plates are made in the city of Philadelphia by American employees, American men, American material and are American in every sense of the word.

George H. Loyd. Boston, Mass., Oct. 26. How long, in view of indisputable evidence like this will the Democratic free-trade papers have the gall to claim that tin plate is not and cannot be made this country?